Ty Newydd Course Brochure - Literature Wales

July 30 -
August 4
9. STARTING AND RESTARTING
TO wRITE: POETRy & PROSE
Siân Melangell Dafydd and Paul Henry
Guest: Gillian Clarke
This course welcomes those who are new to writing and also
those wishing to re-embark on previously abandoned forays
into poetry and/or prose. Both the craft and mystery of these
genres will be explored through a combination of workshops
and one-to-one *tutorials. A friendly, supportive environment
should help you to move forward in your writing and discover
new possibilities. A central aim of the course is to build
participants’ confidence in their work.
*Siân Melangell Dafydd’s tutorials can be conducted in either English or Welsh.
Siân Melangell Dafydd is an author, poet, translator and coeditor
of Taliesin. Her novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing), won the
2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. She has published
in many anthologies in wales and abroad. In 2010 she won a
Translators’ House wales–HALMA award and held residencies
in Finland and Germany. In November 2011 she took part in the
India-wales writers’ Chain: a poetry translation workshop with
Indian poets before the Hay-on-wye Festival, Kerala. She writes
in both welsh and English and is published in many European
languages and Tamil.
Paul Henry has published five collections of poetry. Described
by the late u.A. Fanthorpe as “a poet’s poet” who combines
“a sense of the music of words with an endlessly inventive
imagination”, he came to poetry through songwriting.
The Brittle Sea: New & Selected Poems was published by Seren in the
uK and by Dronequill in India, under the title The Black Guitar. A
popular creative writing tutor and broadcaster, Henry presented
the Inspired series of arts programmes for BBC Radio wales
and Do Not Expect Applause, his celebration of the Scottish poet
w.S.Graham, for BBC Radio 3. Excusing Private Godfrey, his tribute to
the playwright and actor Arnold Ridley, will be broadcast in the
Spring of 2012, on Radio 4. www.paulhenrywales.co.uk
Fee: £540 (single room) / £460 (shared room)
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